Flex J.D. Evening Program

Introducing the Flex J.D. 

 

In fall 2025, the law school launched Flex J.D., allowing part-time evening students greater convenience and flexibility while maintaining academic rigor, a dynamic classroom experience, and the sense of community that come from in-person learning.

 

Flex J.D. students attend class in person two evenings per week, typically between 5:45 and 9 p.m. Some courses are offered fully in-person courses. Others are “blended,” combining one night of in-person instruction with asynchronous, self-paced online learning, including instructional videos, written assignments, and virtual discussions with classmates and faculty. Some upper-level courses may be offered one night in-person and a second night over zoom, to allow diversity of offerings while preserving the two-evening-per-week standard. The degree requirements are the same as for our full-time students, and the evening courses are taught by the same mix of tenured, tenure-track, and adjunct faculty.

For the upper-level curriculum, Flex J.D students are welcome to take non-blended courses or summer courses in addition to courses specifically designed to permit the two-days-in-person-per-week format.  

First Year Evening Curriculum

Sample Schedule 

Here is an example of a typical first-semester schedule, for illustration purposes only. In this example, Contracts is the traditional, fully in-person course. Introduction to Lawyering Skills and Civil Procedure I are “blended” courses, in which one of the weekly class meetings is replaced with asynchronous online activities that students complete on their own schedule. 

 

The two-evening-per-week, in-person schedule empowers students to organize their coursework around professional responsibilities and enhances access to law school for students who, due to personal obligations or mobility constraints, are unable to commute daily to campus. 

 

We aim to have 25 students for any given blended course. This smaller class size facilitates robust engagement among students and faculty and enables faculty to provide more frequent substantive, individualized feedback on students’ written work than is typically possible in a larger traditional in-person course. 

 

Once Flex J.D. students complete their required courses, they will have the opportunity to select more or fewer blended courses, depending on their preferences, and including summer courses.

 

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